Ecstasy Quotes

487 Ecstasy quotes by 311 unique authors

Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land… — Unknown Author
Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. — Henry Miller
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of… — Vladimir Nabokov
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state… — Paulo Coelho
All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find,… — C.S. Lewis
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is… — Oscar Wilde
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his… — Milan Kundera
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.… — Paul Verlaine
He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven… — Emily Bronte
There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like… — James Frey
There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal… — Bram Stoker
There is ecstasy in paying attention. — Anne Lamott
Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die.… — Unknown Author
We shall creep out quietly into the butler's pantry--" cried the Mole. "--with out pistols and swords and sticks--" shouted ther Rat. "--and rush in… — Kenneth Grahame
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table,… — Virginia Woolf
What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief. — Sarah Kane
He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering. — Khalil Gibran
here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a… — Thomas de Quincey
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been. — Edgar Allan Poe
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! — Allen Ginsberg
The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie.… — Aleister Crowley
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love… — Gary Snyder
Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy — Sara Teasdale

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